I am writing a WPF application using the MahApps Metro UI toolkit.
http://mahapps.com/guides/quick-start.html
From the guide on their website, I have basically finished my application and it looks slick. The only issue I have is I have not been able to find out how to use the icon packs they provide as contextmenu icons.
Here's an visual example of what I'm trying to do. While I was able to get the original "Windows" menu item to display it's icon, I am unable to do the same for the contextmenu menuitems. Is there something I am doing wrong or a way to work around this?
Here's my .xaml:
<Menu IsMainMenu="True">
<MenuItem Header="_Windows" ContextMenuService.IsEnabled="False" Click="WindowsMenuItem_Click">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Rectangle Width="15" Height="15" Fill="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=MenuItem}, Path=Foreground}">
<Rectangle.OpacityMask>
<VisualBrush Stretch="Fill" Visual="{StaticResource appbar_window}" />
</Rectangle.OpacityMask>
</Rectangle>
</MenuItem.Icon>
<MenuItem.ContextMenu>
<ContextMenu>
<MenuItem Header="_Welcome Module">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Rectangle Width="15" Height="15" Fill="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=MenuItem}, Path=Foreground}">
<Rectangle.OpacityMask>
<VisualBrush Stretch="Fill" Visual="{StaticResource appbar_home}" />
</Rectangle.OpacityMask>
</Rectangle>
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header="_Schedule Module">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Rectangle Width="15" Height="15" Fill="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=MenuItem}, Path=Foreground}">
<Rectangle.OpacityMask>
<VisualBrush Stretch="Fill" Visual="{StaticResource appbar_calendar}" />
</Rectangle.OpacityMask>
</Rectangle>
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header="_Performance Module">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Rectangle Width="15" Height="15" Fill="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=MenuItem}, Path=Foreground}">
<Rectangle.OpacityMask>
<VisualBrush Stretch="Fill" Visual="{StaticResource appbar_table}" />
</Rectangle.OpacityMask>
</Rectangle>
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
<MenuItem Header="_Audit Module">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Rectangle Width="15" Height="15" Fill="{Binding RelativeSource={RelativeSource AncestorType=MenuItem}, Path=Foreground}">
<Rectangle.OpacityMask>
<VisualBrush Stretch="Fill" Visual="{StaticResource appbar_graph_line}" />
</Rectangle.OpacityMask>
</Rectangle>
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>
</MenuItem.ContextMenu>
</MenuItem>
</Menu>
And my .xaml.cs:
public partial class MainWindow
{
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
DataContext = new MainWindowViewModel();
}
private void WindowsMenuItem_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
(sender as MenuItem).ContextMenu.IsEnabled = true;
(sender as MenuItem).ContextMenu.PlacementTarget = (sender as MenuItem);
(sender as MenuItem).ContextMenu.Placement = System.Windows.Controls.Primitives.PlacementMode.Bottom;
(sender as MenuItem).ContextMenu.IsOpen = true;
}
}
I got it to work in my application using:
<Window.Resources>
<ResourceDictionary>
<VisualBrush x:Key="RunAllTestsIcon" Visual="{StaticResource appbar_list_check}"/>
</ResourceDictionary>
</Window.Resources>
...
<ContextMenu StaysOpen="True">
<MenuItem Header="RunAllTests">
<MenuItem.Icon>
<Rectangle Width="22" Height="22" Fill="{StaticResource RunAllTestsIcon}"/>
</MenuItem.Icon>
</MenuItem>
</ContextMenu>
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